Eco Aspects in Revitalisation Tenement Housing Quarters in Szczecin (PL)

This chapter is trying to answers on question: how the sustainable development influence on designing of revitalization process, especially for tenement housing quarters in downtowns of the cities?.

Residential quarters from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries remain an important part of existing urban tissue, particularly in large cities, in Poland as in other European countries. Tenement housing was constructed for the middle and lower social classes. The frontal tenement houses had large, comfortable flats, whereas the annexes had small, substandard flats with no amenities. Living conditions and the living environment must be improved immediately, particularly for flats located within quarters. The proposal to demolish entire inside quarters and replace them with green and recreational areas is a mistake. The sustainable development paradigm has altered people's perceptions of nineteenth-century quarters and how to improve them. According to sustainable development theory, social, economic, and environmental issues are all intertwined. They all have an effect on the architecture, and thus on the spatial and technical arrangements that are used. Ecological aspects of the revitalisation process have a significant impact on both large-scale planning solutions and small-scale architectural, technical, and material solutions used in specific buildings or flats. The most important ecological aspects for architectural design and revitalization are energy-related, material-related, and space-related, or better time-space-related, where the entire life cycle is examined.

The presented works of the author and especially the fallowing implementation of an ecological renovation of a Turzyn Quarter in Szczecin are the showcase of the material and non-material benefits for people and environment, which are brought by such an approach to revitalisation.